Essential Guide to Tailoring: Finishing
Enhance the elegance and excellence of your garments. Learn traditional and modern tailoring techniques for exquisite linings, hems, buttonholes and more.
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Enhance the elegance and excellence of your garments. Learn traditional and modern tailoring techniques for exquisite linings, hems, buttonholes and more.
Better Buttonholes
Meet author, designer, and sewing and tailoring expert Alison Smith! Alison will quickly review how to bring a tailored jacket to its finishing stage (from earlier classes in this series), then make a gorgeous piped bound buttonhole and show how to handle buttonholes for large statement buttons.
Linings by Machine
Learn to choose the best lining fabric for your project, and follow along as Alison shows how to add a hanging loop and back pleat to the lining and install it by machine, with hand-finishing to complete the installation perfectly. Then learn about decorative options for the lining-facing seam.
Linings by Hand
Alison explains when a traditional hand-installed lining is the best choice. Then learn to prepare a jacket for a hand-installation, and the proper method and order of attaching the lining pieces for a garment that’s beautiful and comfortable.
Flawless Hems
Matching the join at facing and hem can challenge even experienced sewists, but with Alison’s guidance your hem will be level even at this critical juncture. Then learn to expertly manage the lining pleat. If your tailoring plans include trousers, Alison will show you how to add kick tape for hems.
Lined Vent Construction
Tailored sleeves and skirts often include vents for ease of movement as well as design. Alison demystifies the process of cutting the lining to go around the vent, sewing the vent in the face fabric and the lining, and then attaching the two for a flawless interior finish.
Finishing Details
Your tailored jacket is almost complete! Learn to add perfect topstitching, hand-sew your buttons to the jacket with a thread shank for strength, and carefully touch up your jacket without re-pressing areas that you’ve already pressed.
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